Senior Analyst, Transcend R&D CMMS

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Supply Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

US - Requisition Number: R-070534

Belgium - Requisition Number: R-069385 

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Analyst, Transcend R&D CMMS role in Beerse, Belgium or U.S. (Malvern, PA or Horsham, PA).

  

Purpose:  

Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational Supply chain processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform (SAP S4 Hana) for growth and efficiency gains.  

The program will simplify the Pharm ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to have a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharm business with agility.  

R&D is an integral part of the IM Transcend program, in order to transform and standardize relevant R&D supply chain processes, to include them within the global IM Transcend Template.  

The Transcend R&D program team is now looking for a Senior Analyst, Transcend R&D CMMS, responsible for leading the CMMS deliverables within R&D as part of the Transcend (SAP S/4HANA) transformation. This role ensures the end-to-end design, data readiness, integration alignment, and deployment execution for computerized maintenance management processes and related assets, enabling compliant, reliable maintenance operations and inspection readiness across R&D sites.  

The position will be reporting into the Transcend R&D manufacturing implementation lead. 

You will be responsible for: 

•  Lead CMMS process and solution alignment within the global template and deployment model (asset hierarchy, work management, preventive maintenance, calibration/inspection where applicable).  

• Own CMMS requirements and backlog for R&D, ensuring traceability through design, build, test, and release; drive decisions and manage escalations.  

• Coordinate CMMS master data and migration readiness (equipment/asset data, task lists, plans, BOMs/spares where applicable), including reconciliation and sign-off.  

• Partner with integration and architecture teams to ensure end-to-end flows between SAP S/4HANA, other platforms, and site systems.  

• Drive test strategy and execution readiness (BST/UAT), including defect triage, business validation, and operational readiness.  

• Embed compliance-by-design: partner with Technology Quality/CSV and Quality/Compliance to ensure controlled processes, documentation, and audit-ready evidence.  

• Support cutover planning and hypercare stabilization for CMMS capabilities; ensure smooth transition to support/operations.  

• Lead change management inputs (training needs, SOP impacts, role mapping) in collaboration with business adoption teams.  

  

Approximate Percentage of Time & Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities:  

• 25%  Process/solution leadership and governance (requirements, decisions, dependency management).  

• 20%  Data readiness and migration coordination (asset/equipment data, plans, reconciliation, sign-offs).  

• 20% Testing and validation readiness (BST/UAT support, defect triage, business validation).  

• 15% Integration alignment and end-to-end scenario assurance.  

• 10% Cutover and hypercare execution/stabilization.  

• 10% Compliance and documentation management (CSV/SDLC evidence, SOP impacts, audit readiness).  

  

 Other responsibilities:  

• Support audits/inspections and contribute to CAPA planning and execution related to maintenance system processes.  

• Contribute to continuous improvement of CMMS templates, playbooks, and operational controls for future deployments.  

 

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience:  Business Engineering, Life Sciences, Information Systems, or related discipline.  

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance management/CMMS, asset management processes, and/or plant/site/lab operations.  

• Experience with ERP-enabled maintenance processes (SAP PM) and end-to-end work management lifecycle.  

• Proven experience working in a GxP regulated environment  

• Strong understanding of controlled documentation practices and compliance expectations for computerized systems in regulated environments.  

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional delivery across process, data, and technology teams, including asset structures and preventive maintenance  

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to drive decisions and manage competing priorities 

   

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience delivering transformations using Agile/PI planning and global template deployments.  

• Cross-functional exposure 

• Agile methodology 

• Use of Jira  

• Travel up to 10%

  

Key Working Relationships:  

• MAKE pillar leadership Transcend; R&D site maintenance/engineering leaders and SMEs.  

• Global template teams (process owners, template owners/managers) and deployment leads.  

• IT delivery teams (solution architecture, integration, data migration, testing, cutover, support).  

• Quality/Compliance partners (Technology Quality/CSV, GxP as applicable) and ISRM.  

  

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Clinical Supply Chain, Clinical Trials Operations, Communication, Distribution Management, Inventory Control, Inventory Optimization, Laboratory Operations, Mentorship, Organizing, Package and Labeling Regulations, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Project Management, Research and Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)